"Happy birthday, dear" Painting

Born in Bucharest, Romania.
Graduated of Fine Arts University Timisoara, Romania.
One-man and group exhibitions in Romania, Hungary, Germany.
Live in Arad, Romania.

Outlined, the artistic activity of Daniela Todor is part of the easel painting area. She practices classical techniques - oil or acrylic on canvas and continues with mixed techniques that integrate graphics and templates. It thus creates new depths of space obtained by linear intercalations. In his work are present the paradoxes of modernity: the use of expressionism, raw art, graphic sign, the possibility of getting out of the real-romantic invoice, the dream - all together consolidates the feeling of detachment from the real and emphasizes the idea of continuous dialogue between real and fantasy. Her painting is part of a trend that appeared in Timisoara in the early 2000s, a trend tributary to Dubuffet's influences - brutalism, dreamy romance, new objectivity, the Italian avant-garde, modern Latin America. Welcome references to universal literature complete her artistic creation projects. The connection of literature with the field of plastic arts also has its springs in romanticism, who lets herself be felt in her work.
Univ. Dr. Anamaria Serban,

Artist Statement

My artworks are designed to challenge the viewer to get out of the comfort zone. I create unfamiliar, unusual spaces, sometimes difficult to decipher.
I consider that the experiment is an important part of the creation and using it I generate structures and textures that together with the color determine attractive surfaces that manage to arouse curiosity. I populate these newly created spaces with various characters, sometimes atypical, with strong expressions, reflections of my inner universe. I like to build a whole repertoire of figurative elements that I permanently subordinate to colour, this having a very important role in the whole scenography. My plastic images are composed as a permanent dialogue between shape and color.
Thus, I challenge the viewer to begin a journey into a story conceived from real and imaginary elements. My compositions are generally narrative, I use the figurative as an anchor that forces the viewer to remain inside the work, on his own, and thus force him to force the limits of his imagination and to exceed his comfort zone.
I strongly believe that artists have the tools to push through barriers, and I still believe they have a duty to do so.

Dana Todor (b.